If this is your first visit, be sure to
check out the FAQ by clicking the
link above. You may have to register
before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages,
select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below.

Tenement Halls : "Knitting Needles and Bicycle Bells"

If you've never heard of Chris Lopez, you've probably never heard of his last band the Rock A Teens and their melancholy melodramatic psychobilly all tied together with some sorta Brian Wilson esqe somethin'ruther. I was lucky enough to see them for the first time on my twenty first birthday, and have loved 'em ever since. Their 2000 album Sweet Bird of Youth gets almost more playing time on my turntable than anything else five years later. Unfortunately, it was to be their last record, and the only thing I've heard from Chris since then was that he got married, and has something like 27 cats.

Then last week I finally got my stubby little hands on the new Tenement Halls record. It's Chris and a couple of the guys from his former band, but they've prettied things up a just a tad.

It's absolutely the best platter I've come across this year. I was ready to bag the whole Year of our Lord 2005, conceding to the internet and agreeing that the 'ol trip to the record store just might not be worth it anymore. But it's funny how One Great Record can change everything, and this one's it.

Now everyone that knows me, thinks I'm this loud guy that laughs alot and listens to equally annoying music, but I've got range in spades, and this record touches and speaks to parts of me that have been neglected.

Lopez is the greatest songwriter of our time, and he doesn't need to hear his songs on commercials, or marry Gwyneth Paltrow to prove it. His is the stuff of the real, and the south. Really mess yourself up, and read a Truman Capote book while you listen.

Board Moderators may, at their discretion and judgment, delete and/or edit any messages that violate any of the following guidelines: 1. Explicit references to alleged illegal or unlawful acts. 2. Graphic sexual descriptions. 3. Racial or ethnic slurs. 4. Use of edgy language (including masked profanity). 5. Direct personal attacks, flames, fights, trolling, baiting, name-calling, general nuisance, excessive player criticism or anything along those lines. 6. Posting spam. 7. Each person may have only one user account. It is fine to be critical here - that's what this board is for. But let's not beat a subject or a player to death, please.

Thank you, and most
importantly, enjoy yourselves!

RedsZone.com is a privately owned website and is not affiliated with the Cincinnati Reds or Major League Baseball